2 categories · RankedLightyear
Lightyear is software for telecom expense management and accounts payable automation · lightyear.ai ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Genuity is first at 35%.
vCom Solutions is first at 18%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Tangoe One Telecom is first at 53%.
Why models recommend it
“Lightyear is the strongest platform to shortlist”Perplexity Sonar · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Modern platforms (like Brightfin, ExpenseLogic, or Lightyear) build their value proposition around automated invoice parsing”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · alternative
“Alternative Budget Option ... Lightyear has pricing based on the number of services managed, with procurement free to use”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Takes a different approach by connecting procurement, inventory tracking, and expense management in a unified platform”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Lightyear, over the 66 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 44 | 14 | View → | |
| 34 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 33 | 2 | View → | |
| 31 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 25 | 14 | Compare → | |
| 22 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 14 | 4 | Compare → | |
| 13 | 4 | View → | |
| 11 | 1 | View → | |
| 10 | 2 | View → |
What the models named instead of Lightyear →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Lightyear's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- enterprises
- Customers named
- Everon, Okta, Alo Yoga, Big-D Construction, Elauwit, Aecon, MSA Safety, Campus Technologies
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 64 of the 66 answers that named Lightyear and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
211 of the 226 domain citations in answers naming Lightyear came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glossary or explainer | 241 | undated | Expense management, Telecom expense mgmt | ||
| Blog | 165 | undated | Expense management, Telecom expense mgmt | ||
| Comparison | 134 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 18 | undated | |||
| Case study | 14 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 7 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 5 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page lightyear.ai exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.